Word: ballista
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...theme is adultery, and the assembled husbands of Trevise provide a hilarious survey of some of the resultant absurdities. One, Alberto Lionello, comes sniveling to a doctor friend, bemoaning a sudden attack of impotence. The doctor (Gigi Ballista) trustingly leaves Lionello to keep his wife company while he goes off for fun and games, returns a few hours later to find to his horror that the patient is miraculously cured...
...From the Romans' ballista (which in turn comes from the Greek ballein, to throw), an ancient machine for hurling missiles, plus the Greek for heart and writing...
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